A page from a published dissertation entitled De Lanterna Magica(B566) by Matthias Christiaan Muller.

4292

The Magical Lantern

Monfieur Ozanam

Engraving

Great Britain

1708

Detail:3 7/8" x 3 1/2", page: 7 1/2" x 4 1/2"

From Recreations Mathematical and Physical(B239) by Monfieur Ozanam> Published in London.

0107

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1710

6" x 4 1/2"

A page from Optica oder Sche-Kunst(B278) by Johann Michael Conradi

1384

Elias Baeck

Engraving

Germany

1714

10 3/4” x 6 7/8”

A page from: II Callotto resuscitato od. neu eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet (Newly Arranged Cabinet of Dwarfs)(B553) published by Martin Engelbrecht, Augsburg, Germany. Nicolo Cantabella in this print entitled The Night-Singer of Shares, with his Magic Lantern. Each image in this book is surrounded by highly decorative broad borders and additional dwarf figures.

4159

Actieuse Nacht-Wind-Zanger met zyn Tover Slons

Willem Koning

Engraving

The Netherlands

1720

6 1/4" x 4"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130). The title of the print in english translates as: Night-Singer of Shares with his Magic-Lantern.

De Tover Lantaren

Jan de Ridder (1665– 1735)

Engraving

The Netherlands

1720

12 1/4" x 7 1/4"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.One of a series of three images by Ridder of lantern shows. Each has three lanternists depicted at the bottom of the print and each shows a different projected images and grouping of spectators at magic lantern shows.

0110

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

1720

14 1/4" x 11 1/4"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130).

0111

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

1720

10" x 12"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130). Pictured is Prince Frederick Henry standing beside a tree opening his cloak to protection three half-naked victims of the share bubble scheme and in the background two men have fallen into the pool including one with a magic lantern on his back.

0112

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

1720

Two small details with lanternists from two different pages from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130).

1399

La Lanterne Magique

Jacques De Lyon

Copper Engraving

France

1731

10 1/2" x 8"

0114

Le Savoyard

Jacques De Lyon

Engraving

France

1731

10 1/2" x 8"

Same image as 0114 but printed in reverse and with different title.

1498

Monfieur Ozanam

Engraving

France

1735

Detail:5 3/4" x 3 3/4", page: 7 3/4" x 4 3/4"

From Recreations Mathematical and Physiques(B464) by Monfieur Ozanam. Published in Paris.

L'Orgue de Barbarie, and La Lanterne Magique

The most well know illustration of a woman lanternist from the 18th. century.

0115

Der Jaarmarkt van der Waerld

Anonymous

Etching

The Netherlands

1739

24" x 18 1/2

0116

Anonymous

Copper engraving

Germany

1740

5 3/4" x 3 1/4"

Frontispiece from Simon Witgeest's Natürliches Zauber - Buch oder Neueröfneter Spielplatz rarer Künste(B573). In a room full of scientific instruments a man in projecting a slide with a hand-held magic lantern.

Anonymous

Wood engraving

Germany

1740

Image:3" x 3"

A print from Simon Witgeest's Natürliches Zauber - Buch oder Neueröfneter Spielplatz rarer Künste(B573). It shows a lantern and the image of a skeleton.

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

1741

8" x 6 1/4"

Plate #20 from Petro van Musschenbroek's book Elementa Physicae(B475). Plate includes picture of five early moveable slides.

2483

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

1742

10" x 10"

A page from Willem Jakob s'Gravesande's Physices Elementa Mathematica(B186). Illustrates the "Gravesande" magic lantern made by the Musschenbroek workshop in Leiden.